Adultery in the novel : contract and transgression

Author(s)

• Tanner, Tony

Bibliographic Information

Adultery in the novel : contract and transgression

Tony Tanner

（Hopkins Open Publishing : encore editions）

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

• : pbk

Other Title

Adultery in the novel

Note

Title from cover

Reprint. Originally published, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-379) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a special significance in the "bourgeois novels" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His interpretation begins with the general topic of adultery in literature and then zeroes in on three works-Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise, Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften, and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. His interpretation encompasses the role of women, the structure of the family, social mores, and the history of sexuality.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Introduction Part II: Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise Part III: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften Part IV: Flaubert's Madame Bovary Part V: Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BD05201220
• ISBN:
  • 9781421434414
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 383 p., [1] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN3352.A38
  • DC : 809.3/3 809.33
  • NDC8 : 902.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Adultery in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB31637648